From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 11:16: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E38737B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:15:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E52943E88 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <2002112219155405100rsq16e>; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:15:54 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAMJFr5C001487; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:15:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAMJFrqj001484; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:15:53 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Michelle Weeks Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: upgrading sendmail to 8.12.6 References: <8A952552-FE3D-11D6-A7BA-00039368B8EC@mindspring.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 22 Nov 2002 14:15:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8A952552-FE3D-11D6-A7BA-00039368B8EC@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <44k7j5iffa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michelle Weeks writes: > I am running freebsd 4.6.2-Release and would like to upgrade sendmail > from 8.12.3 to 8.12.6. I tried using make and make install from > /usr/ports/mail/sendmail and then restarted sendmail using the killall > -HUP command. However, when I telnet to localhost port 25, it shows > that 8.12.3 is still running. Am I missing a step or do I need to > delete the older version of sendmail before installing the newer > version? No, what you need is to actually stop the old process and then start the new executable. SIGHUP just tells it to (if I recall correctly) re-read its configuration. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message